On the Third Tuesday of this month, Microsoft released cumulative updates for all of its surviving Windows 10 versions save one: KB 4487029 for Win10 version 1803 takes the build up to 17134.619; KB 4487021 for Win10 version 1709 moves the build to 16299.1004; [ Related: Weighing a move from …

Microsoft has revised its schedule to dump support for an outdated cryptographic hash standard by postponing the deadline for Windows 7. Microsoft, like other software vendors, digitally “signs” updates before they are distributed via the Internet. SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1), which debuted in 1995, was declared insecure a decade …

Before even Google I/O 2019, the company will have its chance to address an audience it has not directly talked to that many other smartphone companies have: gamers. The company sent out an invitation for an event on March 19 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center — just in time for …

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Apple’s supplier for the A-series chipsets on the iPhones, is expected to lose out on $550 million in sales this quarter. The company told investors in a forecast revision that it had to take out a higher number of 12nm and 16nm wafers due to customers …

The chief of United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service is weighing multiple concerns in contemplating whether Huawei equipment should be excluded from the nation’s 5G network build-out. Alex Younger, attending the Munich Security Conference, told reporters in a rare public briefing that a decision about the telecom supplier isn’t purely an …

Apple’s laying off the hardware, but laying on content publishers hard to join its future single-stream subscription hubs and they don’t like how much Cupertino wants. All the while, people are happy to spend more on apps. Plus, the truth on a Project Ara revival and Google’s Pixel 4 and …

Microsoft today took the unprecedented step of skipping one of its Windows 10 feature upgrades when it began distributing a preview of the first 2020 update to the most daring testing volunteers. Usually, as one feature upgrade nears release, Microsoft starts giving some Windows Insider participants – those who opted …